In ancient times, there were five types of punishment, specifically for dealing with prisoners. The beheading of the nose, as we know it, is also one of the five major punishments. Of the five punishments, tarnishing was the one that was used the longest in ancient Chinese feudal society, and continued until the qing dynasty, the last dynasty in ancient China.
The general method of appeasement is to use paint to tattoo the prisoner's face, and the prisoner after the tattoo usually does not escape, because no matter where he runs, the ink mark on his face will accompany him for a lifetime, and he will be despised and scorned wherever he is.
Among the five criminal laws, the abdication punishment is the lightest, but it brings more mental torture and makes people feel extremely humiliated. The talented woman Shangguan Wan'er, as we know her, was once appeased, when she served by Wu Zetian's side, but accompanied the king like a companion tiger.
For a long time, it is inevitable that there will be inappropriate words. Therefore, Shangguan Wan'er offended Wu Zetian and was sentenced to be appeased. Shangguan Wan'er is also a girl who loves beauty, she applies rouge to the tattooed forehead, and then draws the shape of a peach blossom, forming a new makeup - peach blossom makeup. This also swept Chang'an, becoming a makeup and face decoration for chang'an noble women and dignitaries.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, there was also a famous general who was subjected to appeasement. He was Di Qing, a famous northern General of the Northern Song Dynasty who broke the Western Xia. Di Qing was born in the cold gate, and he fought countless battles in his life and made great achievements in battle. He became a great general from a small soldier, and along the way, he also made many unknown efforts, and there was also a lot of bitterness behind him.
At that time, the soldiers and prisoners who enlisted in the army had to tattoo their faces, so Di Qing was no exception to tattoo words on his face, which became a reason for others to ridicule and ridicule him. At a banquet, a prostitute who was serving the owner of the banquet at that time actually said "toast to Ban'er" when toasting to Di Qing, which was a blatant teasing of Di Qing.
Di Qing had already risen to the rank of Grand General with the merits of Lei Lei, such a high-ranking and prestigious position, but he was ridiculed by a prostitute, which showed how discriminatory it was to appeasement as a criminal under the punishment of Guda.
In ancient times, appeasement was a more serious punishment for women. With the continuous development of appeasement, a complete development system has been formed in the Tang Dynasty.
Even hundreds of years before the Tang Dynasty, it had developed very perfectly, and Duan Chengshi, the son of The Tang Dynasty Prime Minister Duan Wenchang, once wandered outside, and his retinue passed by a place called Huangkeng, intending to collect some dead human bones for medicine, and one of the bones had a faint ink on it with the words "runaway slave", which shows that the technology of appeasement has developed very maturely.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a general who took the initiative to stab the character on his body. He is the famous anti-gold famous Yue Fei, and the story of his mother-in-law's embroidery must have been heard by all of us. So in ancient times, tattoos on the body were generally prisoners or escaped slaves, so why did Yue Fei take the initiative to stab the characters on his body?
Prisoners at that time generally stabbed the face as a sign. The place where Yue Fei stabbed was his back, in order to warn himself to serve the country, which was different from the nature of the prisoner who was stabbed in the face. There is also a saying that the system of tattooing one's body when one joins the army still exists, and Yue Fei, as a general, naturally plays an exemplary role.
In ancient times, celebrities who were subjected to appeasement also included Song Jiang in the Water Margin, in fact, in the long history of 5,000 years of China, the appeasement was abandoned for a period of time. During the reign of Emperor Wen of Han, there was a doctor who committed a crime, and his daughter could not bear to be punished by her father, so she wrote to Emperor Wen of Han, saying that she was willing to act as an official slave to offset her father's sins.
Emperor Wen of Han was impressed by the woman's sincerity and ordered a change in punishment. Punishments such as appeasement were adjusted accordingly, and they were sent to the frontier to serve as coolies. Some punishments for cutting off the nose, or cutting off an organ of the human body, are also changed to playing a board, etc., so that the person will not become disabled.
With the development of science and technology, people's concepts have also undergone subtle changes. The impact of new ideas has also made people's concepts less conservative and more open. In modern times, tattooing has evolved into a new body art and has become a trend for many young people today.
Tattoos on the body also represent the meaning of wanting to start a new life and look forward to the future, and many people tattoo the names they want to remember.
In China, the body art of tattooing has also continued to develop, and many tattooists have combined traditional Chinese ink paintings to design allegorical and far-reaching patterns, such as the sunset of the long river, the goldfish playing in the water, etc., which have become vivid under the hands of tattooists. Tattooing has also become a craft, and tattoo shops can be seen in the streets and alleys, and many people also make a living from it. Perhaps thousands of years ago, the people who invented the appeasement did not expect that thousands of years later, the appeasement would not only become a trend for young people, but also have a far-reaching impact.